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A Small copper coloured butterfly / moth photographed at 4X magnification with 15-20% crop..
Canon 6D, MPE-65, RR 4x
ISO 100, F/4.5, 1/13s, 201 images stacked in Zerene
YS-type DIY LED tunnel light
ZS, PS, Capture 1
Knysna, South Africa
Ugandan soldiers, belonging to the African Union Mission in Somalia, sit on top of a tank in the early morning hours before advancing on the town of Qoryooley, Somalia, on March 22. AU UN IST PHOTO / Tobin Jones
Vyjayanthi Kashi
Dancer par excellence Vyjayanthi Kashi’s career spans over an impressive spectrum of performance, choreography, teaching acting and research. Her works has been featured in several International festivals including the Oriental Dance Festival Germany, Festival of India in Africa, India Film Festival in Malaga, Olympic Festival in Italy, First International Kuchipudi Dance Convention at California the dance and music festival in US, International Dance & Music Festival in Egypt, Malta, Tunisia, Karmiel Dance Festival in Israel and many more.
She serves on the Arts and Cultural Committee of the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural, Government of India. Founder of the Shambhavi School of Dance she has trained many dance aspirants round the world. She has been honored with several awards including Kala Shree, Zee Astitva, Araya Bhatta and Vocational Excellence Awards. She was recently awarded with the Central Sangeeth Natak Academy Puraskar, the Rajyotsava award 2010 for her contribution to Kuchipudi and more. She has recently been appointed as the Chairman of the Karnataka Sangeetha Nritya Academy.
Ms. Prateeksha Kashi
As a child, it is said that Prateeksha sang and danced the whole of the dance drama AMBE from Mahabharata when she was just three years young. Ever since, she is being trained in Kuchipudi under the guidance of her mother and Guru Smt. Vyjayanthi Kashi. At the age of thirteen, Prateeksha topped the state in the Kuchipudi dance exams with a distinction. Prateeksha has presented solo performances in many prestigious festivals in India and abroad to mention a few , Festival of Dance – Los Angelis, Dance Festival – New York, Milap Festival – U K and more…
She is a recipient of “Nalanda Nritya Nipuna”, an award instituted by the Nalanda Dance Research Centre and also a recipient of the prestigious scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, Govt of India. Prateeksha also has the credit of being featured in many dance productions for the television media and is a graded artist of the Doordarshan Kendra. She is now dancing and playing prominent roles in almost all the dance dramas with her seniors for many national dance festivals.
Concept Note
This compilation is an attempt to map the evolution of the ‘Kuchipudi’ dance form which originally was performed only as a dance drama to its current form where the solo format of presentation also has gained in popularity. The journey of the accompanying music & choreography as they changed with the evolution is also captured.
1) Salutations to Balatripurasundari
The presentation begins with a salutation song to Kuchupudi Vani also known as Balatripurasundari the goddess of the kuchipudi village. This composition by Nritya Vachaspati Guru Vedantam Parvateesam heaps praises on Kuchupudi Vani and the richness of the art form. She is praised for her mellifluous vocals, chatur-vidha abhinaya & navarasa skills.
2) Shrusthi:
Shrushti or the emergence of the universe resulted from pranavanadham , the om or omkara. The universe being made up of the Pancha Bhutas – aakasha, vayu, agni, jalam and pritvi whose combination gives way for life or jeevothpattas . Life after undergoing different stages of evolution culminates into the human form filled with all the worldly desires or kama, Resulting in – Janma Janmantharam, Karma Karmaantharam { Kalaya Thasmai Namaha} . Vyjayanthi Kashi has weaved the beejaksharas Ham, Yam, Ram, Lam and Vam corresponding to the five elements into the jatti format.
3) Tarangam:
This is a special number in Kuchipudi. The song accompanying this number is from the well-known “Krishnaleela Tarangini”, a text that recounts the life and events of Lord Krishna by Saint Narayan Theertha who uses various literary and musical forms such as songs, prose passages, slokas & dwipadis.
Vyjayanthi Kashi has knit in the various literary aspects of this musical opera into this tarangam “Pahi Pahi Pahi…”along with the melody of the swaras and tanams . A special element of skill is involved here. The dancers use various pada karmas and dance on the rim of a brass plate. The brass plate is the symbol of Karmakanda: one's field of activity. And the dancer is a Karma Yogi: highly disciplined with the knowledge of some footwork. Dancing on the rim indicates the human possibilities to reach beyond the limits
Raga Amruta Varshini, tala Adi
4) Thillana:
The concluding presentation is Thillana. It is a salutation to the Sun God symbolizing that the end is the beginning. Choreographed to rhythmic intricacies and choreographic patterns, this thillana is a tribute to the fact that a performance never truly concludes but like the rising of the sun it is the beginning of many more to come.
Kingston couldn't escape the clutches of Emily.
But lets be honest, I don't think he really wanted to.
I wanted to set up a shot to be as punishing as possible to the D200s image quality.
This shot was taken at ISO 3200 in uncomressed RAW handheld at night.
The light on the side of the building was very yellow. Far past the tungsten white balance in camera. I used Nikon Capture 1.2 to match the white on the license plate cover which caused horrible blue specs due to the extreme boost in the relatively weak blue channel. Noise reduction at 50% on high quality mode.
The difference in noise control between In camera, Nikon capture < 1.2 and Capture 1.2 is noticeable. I'm going to try this again with Noise Ninja later.
And yes, I'm aware the 5D is much better.
That and I hadn't posted a picture of my car in a long time.
A local cane fly photographed at 7X magnification
Canon 6D, MPE-65, TC 1.4X, total RR 7x
ISO 100, F/3.2, 1/6s, 157 images stacked in Zerene
YS-type DIY LED tunnel light
ZS, PS, Capture 1
Cape Town, South Africa
Natural lighting
85 f1.2L + ND8 filter (3 stops)
F1.6
Edited in Capture 1 Pro. To purchase/try it check out the link below.
Ok I am super excited. I have a contact who produced street photography with the cinematic look. NOW with this new lens, I can do it! I've always been wanting to be able to do this for years but didn't know how. I didn't realize he had a lens that could produce images of this quality of focus!
I photographed this longhorn beetle at 7X magnification using the MPE-65 at full stretch and an added 1.4X TC.
Canon 6D, MPE65+ 1.4XTC, 7X Mag
ISO 200, F/3.5, 0.4s, 146 images combined in Zerene
YS light tunnel, 3X Speedlites
ZS, PS, Capture 1
Cape Town, South Africa
On my recent trip to Hawaii I did a night snorkel to see manta rays. It was an awesome experience to see these gentle giants up close as they swooped and swirled around scooping up plankton attracted by the lights. A link to the video can be found in the description in the next photo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPfe_veOqzw&feature=related
كلمات: يحيى ابراهيم حداف
الحان: خالد الشيخ
ليله دانه لدان ... ليله دانه لدان
ليله دانه لدان ... يا طائر الأشجان
أبكي إذا غرّد ... طائر على الأشجار
وأقول إن ردد ... وباح بالأسرار
كأنّه معبد ... قد حرك الأوتار
هيّجت أشجاني ... يا طائر الأشجان
هيّجت يا قمري ... بصوتك الملحون
ماكان في صدري ... من سريّ المكنون
حتى مضى دهري ... وخاطري مفتون
هايم شجي عالي ... لا يعرف السلوان
ما لذّ لي بعدك ... مشرب ولا مطعم
فقد ترك بُعدك ... جوانحي تضرم
فاذكر سقى عهدك ... حبيبك الأحوم
وبدرك الغالي ... وظبيّك الفتان
محبّتك دعوى ... ما إن لها برهان
فإنّ من يهوى ... يقول يا فتان
يا جنة المأوى ... للعاشق الولهان
انظر إلى شاني ... فما رقى لي شان
أخرت في كتبك ... أيام بل أشهر
ما أنت في حبّك ... صادق كما تذكر
لو كنت في قلبك ... وفـخاطرك أخطر
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With the onset of the Lionfish invasion in 2008, the Cayman Islands Department of Environment approved the use of hand held nets under a culling license to cull/kill lionfish ostensibly to protect the reef fish populations from being decimated.
These 4 photos show local recreational divers with captured lionfish prior to euthanizing them.
Published in conjunction with an article on the current state of lionfish culling in the Cayman Islands.
Diver: Isabelle Brown
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